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6.34.15  Determinant of a matrix in ℤ/pℤ: det

The det command can find the determinant of a matrix with elements in ℤ/pℤ. (See also Section 6.47.4.)


Example.
Input:

det([[1,2,9]%13,[3,10,0]%13,[3,11,1]%13])

or:

det([[1,2,9],[3,10,0],[3,11,1]]%13)

Output:

5%13
5%13

Hence, in ℤ/13ℤ, the determinant of M=[[1,2,9],[3,10,0],[3,11,1]] is 5%13 (in ℤ, det(M)=31).


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